Fire out, but condo tower unlivable for now

[Laura Chapin, Special to the Times] TREASURE ISLAND -- The call came in at 3:54 p.m. today as a kitchen fire on the fourth floor of the Blind Pass Lagoon condominium tower overlooking Boca Ciega Bay. Firefighters weren't even on scene yet they when called in the second alarm, according to Treasure Island fire Chief Charles Fant. That's how much black smoke was already billowing out of the building. By the time firefighters from seven agencies had contained and then extinguished the apart

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